EP2992209A1 - Procédés et systèmes pour surveiller une installation éolienne et installation éolienne - Google Patents

Procédés et systèmes pour surveiller une installation éolienne et installation éolienne

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EP2992209A1
EP2992209A1 EP14709195.3A EP14709195A EP2992209A1 EP 2992209 A1 EP2992209 A1 EP 2992209A1 EP 14709195 A EP14709195 A EP 14709195A EP 2992209 A1 EP2992209 A1 EP 2992209A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D17/00—Monitoring or testing of wind motors, e.g. diagnostics

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  • the invention relates to a method for monitoring a wind turbine with at least one elongated component, wherein four sensors are arranged in a sensor arrangement of two pairs of sensors around the circumference of the component and the two sensors of each pair of sensors face each other, so that imaginary connecting lines between the sensors the two sensor pairs in the interior of the component in a crossing point intersect or cut, wherein two differential sensor signals are formed from the sensor signals of the two sensors of each pair of sensors in function of all four sensors for determining a bending stress of the component in different directions.
  • the invention further relates to a corresponding system and a wind turbine.
  • Modern wind turbines are structurally susceptible to vibration. They usually include a comparatively slender tower with heights of up to over 1 00 m, on which a machine housing with a generator and optionally a gear and a rotor with one or more rotor blades, usually three rotor blades, is arranged.
  • the rotor blades themselves also have lengths of up to 60 m or more in modern wind turbines.
  • Wind turbines therefore have a plurality of parts that oscillate during operation of the wind turbine and bending forces are subjected, namely the tower, the rotor blades and possibly rotating rotor and gear shafts.
  • sensors such as strain gauges such as strain gauges, fiber Bragg gratings or other vibration sensors are usually arranged at a location around the circumference of the component. These are in many cases distributed at equal intervals around the circumference.
  • the most common configuration is a four sensor configuration spaced from each other by the circumference of, for example, the tower or a rotor blade, in particular at the rotor blade root.
  • Respective sensors form a pair of sensors, so that two sensor pairs are present whose imaginary connecting lines intersect in the interior of the component.
  • Crosses in the context of the present application are understood to mean non-contacting crossing or touching cutting. Since the sensors usually have an extent, it usually suffices if the imaginary connecting lines, starting, for example, from the center points of the sensors, intersect at a distance which amounts to a maximum of a few percent of the length of the component.
  • the corresponding sensor technology is also called feedback sensor technology.
  • Corresponding feedback sensors for example, from a wind turbine according to DE 1 02 1 9 664 A1 known.
  • rotor blades or shafts of the gear train are equipped with corresponding sensors and sensor pairs, and an evaluation device, in particular data processing device, is provided, which is designed to determine the mechanical loads of at least one rotor blade representing evaluation signals based on the sensor signals generated by the sensor elements associated with this rotor blade ,
  • Such sensor elements may comprise sensors based on optical fibers, a rod mounted in the rotor blade and a sensing element detecting the displacement of the rod or other suitable sensor elements.
  • Object of the present invention is to improve the reliability of a wind turbine with feedback sensors in an elongated component.
  • This object is achieved in a method for monitoring a wind energy plant with at least one elongated component, wherein four sensors are arranged in a sensor arrangement of two pairs of sensors around the circumference of the component and the two sensors of each sensor pair face each other, so that imaginary connecting lines between the Sensors of the two pairs of sensors inside the component in a cross crossing or intersecting point, wherein in the function of all four sensors for determining a bending stress of the component in different directions, two differential sensor signals from the sensor signals of the two sensors of each pair of sensors are formed, achieved that for at least one affected sensor at least one affected sensor pair, a replacement sensor signal and / or a replacement difference sensor signal is formed from the other d rei sensor signals, wherein for calculating the equivalent difference sensor signal, a difference between the remaining sensor signal of the affected sensor pair and a weighted for the location of the intersection of the average value of the sensor signals of the other pair of sensors on the distance between the two sensors of the affected sensor pair is extrapolated and / or for calculating the replacement sensor signal from
  • the invention is based on the basic idea that monitoring of the safety of the operation of the wind turbine with feedback sensor technology is realized in a simple manner, which is not based on a purely numerical redundancy of the sensor elements, but uses the present sensor elements.
  • the special feature of the fact that the sensors are arranged in pairs in an approximately cross-shaped configuration around the circumference of the elongated component is used.
  • Such a configuration is usually a configuration in which the respective imaginary connecting lines of the two sensor pairs intersect at an angle of 90 ° or approximately 90 °.
  • the method according to the invention can also be used in configurations in which the crossing angle deviates significantly from 90 °, for example at 60 °, 45 ° or 30 °. Only the specific configuration of the four sensors with respect to their geometric arrangement must be known. From this, the intersection point and the lever arms are calculated, which must be averaged or extrapolated in each case.
  • the "affected" sensor is the one for which a substitute sensor signal from the three other sensor signals is determined in the concrete case, which may also be a failed sensor For this, a replacement differential sensor signal can be determined accordingly.
  • the calculation of the spare sensor signal and / or the substitute differential sensor signal is carried out in the case where the affected sensor fails. In this way, the safe operation of the wind turbine is continued. This can be done alternatively or in addition to the operation of the method according to the invention with four functioning sensors. Also preferably, the calculation of the spare sensor signal and / or the substitute differential sensor signal is carried out in the case when the affected sensor is functional, so supplies signals.
  • the sensors are arranged substantially in a plane oriented perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the component.
  • "in one plane” means in particular the arrangement of the sensors in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the elongated component, the positioning accuracy being within the usual positioning accuracy and / or geometric features of the component
  • the definition of the imaginary connecting lines and the crossing points of the imaginary connecting lines are geometric auxiliary constructs which can be defined component-specific and sensor-specific in order to achieve reproducible and useful results and are not considered to be strict geometric specifications
  • the imaginary connecting lines can be defined in each case starting from the centers of the sensors or starting from their edges n is to be determined in the specific case of application, with a higher distance of the intersecting connecting lines in many cases will lead to worse results.
  • this distance at the crossing point should be less than two percent of the length of the component, in particular less than one thousandth of a thousand.
  • the two sensor pairs are offset from one another at an angle of 90 ° and / or the crossing point of the imaginary connecting lines is arranged in or on a central longitudinal axis of the component. Offset by an angle of 90 ° or 90 ° means that measurements are made independently in different directions while an array At a different angle, for example below 45 °, means that one direction is measured more accurately and more redundantly than in the other direction. If the point of intersection of the imaginary connecting lines is arranged in or on a central longitudinal axis of the component, geometrical effects arising from the fact that the crossing point is not arranged centrally are likewise minimized.
  • the connecting lines in each case intersect or intersect at half the distances between the sensors of the two sensor pairs.
  • the preferred geometric constellation is given that the respective semi-axes, ie the connecting lines between the crossing point and the sensors are each the same length, so that the extrapolation and the averaging are particularly simple and each one-half weighting can be set.
  • this arrangement means that the difference between the calculated signal and the crossing point and the signal of the other sensor of the affected sensor pair is doubled.
  • the sensors are preferably strain gauges, in particular strain gauges and / or fiber Bragg grating sensors.
  • the elongate member is a rotor blade, in particular a rotor blade root, a shaft of a drive train or a tower of a wind turbine.
  • the respective associated replacement sensor signals and / or equivalent differential sensor signals are also formed with four functioning sensors and the deviations from the corresponding associated sensor signals and / or differential measured sensor signals, especially for all sensors.
  • a monitoring of the functionality of the sensors of the sensor arrangement is given in a particularly efficient manner.
  • the limit values to be applied to the replacement differential sensor signals are adjusted with respect to the limit values to be applied to the differential sensor signals on the basis of the measured deviations. This applies to the case where a corresponding sensor has failed and the replacement differential sensor signal is substituted for the differential sensor signal under surveillance. In the simplest case, this means that the limits are pulled a little closer to account for the uncertainty caused by the failure of the sensor. If the substitute differential sensor signal has also been formed and has been analyzed in the case of functioning sensors, the limit values can also be adapted to the known characteristics of the replacement sensor signal. Thus, limit values can be stored and adjusted separately for the sensor signals and for the corresponding replacement sensor signals. In this way, a wind turbine with a failed sensor can be operated at the same level of safety as with fully functional sensors.
  • a further advantageous refinement of the monitoring results if the measured deviations are evaluated for functional dependencies as a function of the respective associated and / or the respective other three sensor signals, in particular to linear dependencies or dependencies of a higher order.
  • the functional dependencies can be used, for example, to adapt to the substitute diver- limit values to be used.
  • Other functional dependencies on other operating parameters and environmental parameters, such as temperature, speed, blade pitch, etc., can also be monitored and parameterized.
  • the measured deviations are preferably used for calibrating or adapting the calculation of the respective substitute sensor signals and / or replacement interference sensor signals. For example, in the event that functional dependencies of the deviations or the spare sensor signal itself are determined and monitored by the underlying sensor signals or the sensor signal of the affected sensor, it is possible to correct the replacement sensor signals so that their deviations from the underlying sensor signals are minimized. This applies equally to the equivalent differential sensor signals whose deviations from the underlying differential sensor signals.
  • the measured deviations and / or their functional dependencies are monitored by the associated sensor signals for sensor drifts or other sensor errors, in particular over a long-term monitored period.
  • This is an application to monitor the operation of the sensors.
  • the parameterizations of the functional dependencies form a very sensitive monitoring signal. If these parameterizations change slowly as the functional dependency parameterization is repeated, this will indicate changes in the signals from the sensors, and under certain circumstances, when affecting several sensors simultaneously, also changes in the monitored component or other components of the wind turbine.
  • an axial force and / or a gravitational force resulting from the rotation of the rotor is or will advantageously be compensated for in a rotor blade rotating on a rotor.
  • the object on which the invention is based is also achieved by a system for monitoring a wind power plant with at least one elongate component and an operating system, wherein four sensors are arranged in a sensor arrangement of two sensor pairs around the circumference of the component and the two sensors of each sensor pair are opposite each other in that imaginary connecting lines between the sensors of the two sensor pairs in the interior of the component intersect or intersect at a crossing point, wherein the operational management system is designed and set up to carry out a method according to the invention described above.
  • the system has the advantages, properties and features mentioned for the method.
  • Fig. 5 shows a frequency spectrum of the deviation signal for an affected sensor
  • Fig. 1 a is in cross-section, an elongate member 1 0, for example, a rotor blade root, a tower or a shaft of a gear train of a wind turbine, shown, at whose in the example circular circumference four sensors 1 to 4 are arranged at 90 ° angles , Accordingly, the sensor 1 is located, for example, at a 0 ° position, the sensor 2 opposite to a 180 ° position, the sensor 3 at a 90 ° position and the sensor 4 opposite to a 270 ° position.
  • the pairs of sensors 1 and 2 on the one hand and 3 and 4 on the other hand are connected to each other by imaginary connecting lines 12 and 14 which intersect at a crossing point 16, which may also be an intersection. In the configuration shown in Fig. 1 a), which is completely symmetrical, the point of intersection 16 is at the center of the array and the connecting lines 12 and 14 are each halfway separated by the crossing point 16.
  • the connecting line 12 between the sensor 1 and the sensor 2 would denote, for example, the pivoting direction 6 of the rotor blade and the connecting line 14 between the sensors 3 and 4 the direction of impact 8.
  • the differential sensor signals A 12 and ⁇ 34 are calculated as the difference of the sensor signals S2-S1 on the one hand and S4-S3 on the other hand.
  • the sensors 1 to 4 may be, for example, strain gauges, optical fibers with embossed optical gratings (fiber Bragg gratings) or the like.
  • sensor 3 for the following examples is an affected sensor according to the present invention.
  • the formation of the substitute sensor signal S3 takes place on the basis of the remaining sensors 1, 2 and 4 such that a sensor signal for the intersection point 16 is first faked for the intersection point 16 by averaging the sensor signals S1 and S2, which is accordingly represented as I (S1 + S2) / 2 or ⁇ 12 is calculated.
  • a difference signal is called the S4 i: 12 is formed / 2.
  • an extrapolation to the location of the sensor 3 is carried out by doubling the difference previously obtained.
  • ence value S4- 12/2 for the lever arm and the connecting line 18 between the crossing point 16 and the sensor 4
  • S4 i 12 is formed / 2.
  • the fake signal at the crossing point 16 is calculated as (S1 + 2xS2) / 3 when the crossing point 16 is one third of the distance or the connecting line from S2 to S 1.
  • the fake sensor signal for the crossing point 16 would have to be determined as a weighted mean value 3 4/2 or with a correspondingly adapted weighting from the sensor signals S 3 and S 4 .
  • Fig. 2a the time course of a sensor signal S3 for the affected sensor 3 and the replacement sensor signal S3 ', which was calculated by the method according to the invention, shown one above the other.
  • the deviations between the two signals are so small that they are not obvious in FIG. 2a).
  • the x-axis is held substantially in arbitrary units, with the count of time t taking the form of the measurement points taken in the present example at a frequency of 20 Hz.
  • the abbreviation "a. u standss for" arbitrary units ", ie arbitrary units.
  • the Y-axis shows the amplitude of the signal S3 or S3 '.
  • the signal sequence comprises a duration of 10 minutes.
  • FIG. 3 b an enlargement in section thereof is again shown, whereby likewise the replacement difference sensor signals in the maxima slightly exaggerate the original differential sensor signals.
  • the deflections of the substitute signals in FIG. 2a) and Fig. 3a) also stronger than the excursions of the original signals.
  • Fig. 4 again shows the sensor signal S3 from FIG. 2a), this time paired with a deviation signal S3-S3 '.
  • the deviation signal is substantially smaller in magnitude than the amplitude of the oscillations of the original signal S3.
  • the deviation is small compared to the signal to be reconstructed, with which the calculated replacement sensor signal or to the same extent the calculated Interventiondference sensor signal for the monitoring of the wind turbine is still fit.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé de surveillance d'une installation éolienne présentant un élément allongé (10), quatre capteurs (1 - 4) étant disposés dans une disposition de capteurs formée de deux paires de capteurs autour de la périphérie de l'élément, deux signaux différentiels de capteur (Δ12, Δ34) étant formés à partir des signaux de capteur (S1, S2; S3, S4) des deux capteurs de chaque paire de capteurs pour la détermination d'une sollicitation en flexion de l'élément dans différentes directions. L'invention concerne en outre un système correspondant et une installation éolienne. Pour au moins un capteur concerné d'au moins une paire de sondes concernée, selon l'invention, on forme un signal de remplacement de capteur (S V - S4') et/ou un signal différentiel de remplacement de capteur (Δ'12, Δ'34) à partir des trois autres signaux de capteur. Pour calculer le signal différentiel de remplacement de capteur, on extrapole une différence entre le signal de capteur qui reste de la paire de capteurs concernée et une valeur moyenne pondérée pour le site de croisement des signaux de capteur de l'autre paire de capteurs sur la distance entre les deux capteurs de la paire de capteurs concernée et/ou, pour calculer le signal de remplacement de capteur, on extrapole du signal de capteur de l'autre capteur de la paire de capteurs concernée sur la valeur moyenne pondérée pour le site du point de croisement des signaux de capteur de l'autre paire de capteurs jusqu'au site du capteur concerné.
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